For the first time, Alaska Reflections, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Alaska Region newsletter,is available online at: http://alaska.fws.gov/external/publications/index.htm.
Alaska Reflections contains photo-illustrated articles written by employees about their work and experiences in Alaska. The newsletter offers a wide range of articles. "Dead Thing Duty," published in fall of 2005, is a personal narrative of a biologist working on the clean-up after the grounding of the Selendang Ayu near Unalaska. The most recent edition of Alaska Reflections features "Submerged Salmon Surveillance in Squaw Creek.? In Dillingham, the Service and its partners created a school program to involve students in the recovery of a local watershed. Ultimately, the project came to involve ?broadcasting? live video images of salmon moving up Squaw Creek.
The Alaska Region has produced some form of Alaska Reflections since 1984. The publication has created a written legacy of the lives and work of Service employees throughout Alaska. Although the newsletter was previously published only in hard copy, upcoming Alaska Reflections articles will be published online as new ones become available.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting, and enhancing fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 95-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 542 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resource offices, and 81 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid program that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
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